Driver Update: nVidia AMD64 Linux Drivers 1.0-6629

2px; height:47px;” title=”nVidia logo” alt=”nVidia logo” /> nVidia has released drivers for machines equipped with an AMD64 processor and running under Linux. The drivers are a small 7.5MB in size and can be downloaded from here be brought down. More information about these drivers and how to install them can be found in this document. nVidia said these are the highlights from this release:

Release Highlights

• Added support for GeForce 6600 and GeForce 6600 GT.
• Added support for Quadro FX 4000 SDI
• Added support for 512 MB frame buffers.
• Improved support for GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language).
• Improved performance for VBO (OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects).
• Improved support for Linux 2.6 kernels.
• Improved support for PCI Express.
• Reduced virtual address space consumption in OpenGL applications.
• Updated documentation. Please see the text README file.
  The Known Issues section contains new information for EM64T and for multithreaded application stability. There are also new appendices:
  • (app-s) APPENDIX S: POWER MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
  • (app-t) APPENDIX T: DISPLAY DEVICE NAMES
  • (app-u) APPENDIX U: THE COMPOSITE X EXTENSION
• Improved support for EM64T Linux/x86-64 systems
• Improved support for RenderAccel
• Improved performance for Java2D.